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- n. 小河，溪流未考
- n. 流，一股，一串未考
- v. 流出，涌未考
大纲外大纲词表没有列出、但真题里用到的意思。
v. 以流媒体方式播放，在线播放大纲外14 次
We were kept afloat by “peak TV”, the glut of content that was required by the explosion of streaming services.
支撑我们维持下去的是“巅峰电视”时代——流媒体服务的爆炸式增长所需要的海量内容。
Ever since taking on Netflix Inc. at its own game, old Hollywood has struggled to turn a profit in streaming, with the likes of Disney+, Peacock and Paramount+ losing billions of dollars each year, sparking concerns that the services will never be as profitable as cable once was.
自从在流媒体领域与奈飞公司正面交锋以来，老牌好莱坞一直难以在流媒体业务上盈利，Disney+、Peacock和Paramount+等平台每年亏损数十亿美元，引发了人们的担忧：这些服务永远不会像有线电视曾经那样赚钱。
But the age of streaming has been a boon for some unintended winners: pirates that use software to rip a film or television show in seconds from legitimate online video platforms and host the titles on their own, illegitimate services, which rake in about $2 billion annually from ads and subscriptions.
但流媒体时代却让一些意想不到的赢家获益：盗版者利用软件在几秒钟内从正规在线视频平台上扒下一部电影或电视节目，放到自己的非法平台上，这些平台每年从广告和订阅中捞取约20亿美元。
With no video production costs, illegal streaming sites have achieved profit margins approaching 90%, according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a trade group representing Hollywood studios that’s working to crack down on the thousands of illegal platforms that have cropped up in recent years.
据美国电影协会（MPA）称，由于没有视频制作成本，非法流媒体网站的利润率已接近90%；美国电影协会是代表好莱坞各制片公司的行业组织，正致力于打击近年来涌现的数以千计的非法平台。
But now piracy involving illegal streaming services as well as file-sharing costs the US economy about $30 billion in lost revenue a year and some 250,000 jobs, estimates the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center.
但据美国商会全球创新政策中心估计，如今涉及非法流媒体服务和文件共享的盗版每年让美国经济损失约300亿美元收入和约25万个工作岗位。
In 2017 the association formed the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), an enforcement task force of about 100 detectives circling the globe to help local authorities arrest streaming pirates.
2017年，该协会成立了创意与娱乐联盟（ACE），这是一支由约100名侦探组成的执法特别工作组，他们奔走于全球，协助当地政府抓捕流媒体盗版者。